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Cynthia Erivo Stops Dracula Performance After Spotting An Audience Member Filming

Cynthia Erivo Stops Dracula Performance After Spotting An Audience Member Filming

Published by Sam Flores

Cynthia Erivo brought a live performance of Dracula to an abrupt halt on Monday night, after spotting an audience member filming in the audience. The show was then paused, with one audience member later sharing footage they filmed during this break, questioning: “Whatever happened to theatre etiquette?” Metro also cited another audience member who claimed that the filming patron was “kicked out” by security, with the Oscar nominee returning to the stage to resume her performance after a 10-minute break. HuffPost UK has contacted representatives for Cynthia Erivo and the Noel Coward Theatre, where Dracula is currently playing, for comment. And just this month, Lesley Manville took issue with the current trend that has seen theatres allowing guests to film the curtain call on their phones. “It’s theatre – let’s preserve it!” she told Radio 4. “We are all in this room, we are telling you a story, you’re listening – clap or don’t clap, but don’t just stick your phone in our face. I find it insulting.” Source link

Nedra Talley Ross, last surviving member of the Ronettes, dies aged 80

Nedra Talley Ross, last surviving member of the Ronettes, dies aged 80

Published by Daniella Wilson

Nedra Talley Ross, the last surviving member of the Ronettes, has died aged 80. Talley Ross, who formed part of the Sixties pop trio with cousins Ronnie Spector and Estelle Bennett, died at home on Sunday morning, her daughter Nedra K Ross shared on social media. “At approximately 8:30 this morning, our mother, Nedra Talley Ross, went home to be with the Lord,” she wrote. “She was safe in her own bed at home with her family close, knowing she was loved. Thank you Lord.” Ross’s daughter did not disclose the cause of her death. The news was also shared on the official Ronettes’ Facebook page, in a statement that said: “It is with heavy hearts that we share the news of Nedra Talley Ross’ passing. She was a light to those who knew and loved her,” the message read. “As a founding member of the Ronettes, along with her beloved cousins Ronnie and Estelle, Nedra’s voice, style and spirit helped define a sound that would change music. Her contribution to the group’s story and …

Last Surviving Member of the Ronettes Was 80

Last Surviving Member of the Ronettes Was 80

Published by Daniella Wilson

Nedra Talley Ross, the last surviving founding member of 1960s girl group the Ronettes, has died. She was 80. A post on the Ronettes’ official Facebook page announced the news Sunday but didn’t share a cause of death or any other details. “It is with heavy hearts that we share the news of Nedra Talley Ross’ passing,” the post reads. “She was a light to those who knew and loved her. As a founding member of The Ronettes, along with her beloved cousins Ronnie and Estelle, Nedra’s voice, style and spirit helped define a sound that would change music. Her contribution to the group’s story and their defining influence will live forever. Rest peacefully dear Nedra. Thanks for the magic.” Talley, who was born on Jan. 27, 1946, formed the girl group with her cousins — lead singer Veronica Bennett (who later was known as Ronnie Spector) and her older sister Estelle Bennett — with whom she’d been singing since they were in their teens. First known as the Darling Sisters, they signed with Colpix Records …

APA Member Interview: Shaun Gallagher

APA Member Interview: Shaun Gallagher

Published by Jenni Sidey

The APA Blog is publishing excerpts from Cliff Sosis’s long-form interviews with philosophers, which appear at his blog, What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? The excerpts below are from an interview originally published on October 27, 2025 and reprinted with permission from Cliff Sosis. In this interview, Shaun Gallagher, Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, talks about growing up in Philly, Catholic school, summer on the Jersey shore, considering becoming a cowboy (or philosopher), JFK, Janis Joplin, studying theology as an undergrad at St. Columban’s, Vietnam and institutional religion, bad faith and existentialism, a stint as a private detective, pursuing his PhD at Bryn Mawr, summers in Ireland (where his parents were from), working with José Ferrater-Mora, Merleau-Ponty, becoming more aware of the relevance of science, his first publication, getting eight interviews at the APA smoker and one job offer, phenomenology, cognitive science, and the value of interdisciplinary approaches, embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive cognition, what drives him, Parmenides, and the meaning of life… What was your earliest …

Remembering Napoleon Jones-Henderson, AfriCOBRA Founding Member

Remembering Napoleon Jones-Henderson, AfriCOBRA Founding Member

Published by José Betancourt

“Do the work” was Napoleon Jones-Henderson’s mantra. He believed that beautiful things grow wherever people invest themselves in the labor of collective empowerment.  Born in Chicago in 1943, Jones-Henderson grew up in the Bronzeville neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side and attended George Washington Carver High School, where he was introduced to weaving by an influential art teacher. This teacher “threw the doors open,” as Jones-Henderson remembered, connecting him more formally to what he called the “life activity” of quilt making and the mending the women in his family undertook at home. After high school, Jones-Henderson received a scholarship to study at the Sorbonne in Paris, where the curriculum was overwhelmingly centered on a European discourse that he found largely unaccommodating to non-European perspectives. Later, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he earned his BFA, Jones-Henderson had a similar experience, though he counted himself fortunate to study there with artist Else Regensteiner (1906–2003). Alongside a notable few, Regensteiner is credited with advancing the artistic approaches of the Bauhaus movement in the textile …

Another Trump Cabinet Member Is Out

Another Trump Cabinet Member Is Out

Published by Daniella Wilson

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. When Lori Chavez-DeRemer was nominated, she had a chance to be a pathbreaking secretary of labor, supposedly tasked with shepherding the Republican Party in a more worker-friendly direction. Instead, she turned out to be a typical Trump Cabinet member: disempowered and disgraced. Now she has added dismissed to that list. Chavez-DeRemer’s departure was announced yesterday evening in an X post from White House Communications Director Steven Cheung, who said she would “take a position in the private sector.” He said that Keith Sonderling, the deputy secretary, will be acting secretary. “It has been an honor and a privilege to serve in this historic Administration and work for the greatest President of my lifetime,” Chavez-DeRemer wrote on X. Chavez-DeRemer is unlikely to be missed at the Labor Department, in part because it seems she was hardly ever there. Employees said …

Alan Osmond death: The Osmonds eldest member dies aged 76

Alan Osmond death: The Osmonds eldest member dies aged 76

Published by Daniella Wilson

Alan Osmond has died at the age of 76, the famous family has said. Alan was the guitarist and oldest member of the popular The Osmonds family band, which found fame when the brothers were just children in the 1970s. His death was first reported by local media in Utah, with a family spokesperson saying Alan died with his wife and their eight sons at his bedside in his home city of Orem, near Salt Lake City. Alan was his parents George and Olive’s third-born child and his two older brothers, Virl and Tom, were born with severe hearing impairments. He first performed on The Andy Williams Show when he was just 12 years old as part of a quartet with his younger brothers Wayne, Merrill and Jay. Alan Osmond as the group celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007 (Getty) Donny and Jimmy later joined the group and they fast became teen heartthrobs, releasing tracks including “One Bad Apple”, “Crazy Horses” and “Love Me For A Reason”, which was originally a track by US musician …

APA Member Interviews, Sharon Crasnow

APA Member Interviews, Sharon Crasnow

Published by Jenni Sidey

Sharon Crasnow works on epistemological issues in the methodology of the social sciences. Her focus is primarily on feminist epistemology and philosophy of science and conceptual and measurement issues in the social sciences. What excites you about philosophy? One of the most exciting things about philosophy is that it is a field in which you can explore almost anything. Even though much philosophy is exceedingly narrow, it doesn’t have to be! What is your favorite thing that you’ve written? I’d say that I have two favorite pieces. One is among my first publications, and the other is my most recent. The early one is “How Natural Can Ontology Be?” in Philosophy of Science, March 2000, and the recent one is “Objectivity and Measurement in Political Science,” in Philosophy of Science, 2026. These are papers for which the basic idea just came to me clearly, and although it took time to work out the details, I knew from the start what it was that I wanted to say. I still think that the main idea in …

APA Member Interview, Chloe W. Chang

APA Member Interview, Chloe W. Chang

Published by Jenni Sidey

Chloe Wanghuige Chang was a manager in the business and fashion industry, but always felt that something was missing in her pursuit, until she discovered that her true passion lay in the search for the meaning of human existence. This realization led her to make a radical shift from business to study philosophy, focusing on existential questions in the digital age. Website: https://chloechang-dotcom.github.io/clo.github.io/ Institution: San Jose State University – Philosophy Department https://www.sjsu.edu/philosophy/ What are you working on right now? I am currently developing my philosophical work with the aim of inspiring people to discover their own authentic being, especially at a time when the rapid development of AI is reshaping how we understand ourselves. By reflecting on human existence and our relationship with AI and computing, I hope to encourage others to find inner value and peace rather than grounding their lives in the external or material world. What is your favorite thing that you’ve written? The paper is about how social media increasingly fills the gap between the present moment and its anticipated outcome …